In an operation that sounds like it was taken from a script from the 1960s TV series “Hogan’s Heroes,” the Virginia Department of Corrections is investigating the attempt by somebody on the outside to drop $324,000 worth of contraband – including a pound of meth, 30 disposable lighters, two cartons of cigarettes, 17 cellphones, two bottles of professional-grade tattoo ink and two bottles of perfume – via drone into the Sussex I State Prison in the early hours of Monday.
Corrections officers intercepted the package around 1:30 a.m. Monday morning, per a release from VADOC.
Sussex I State Prison is a 1,139-bed maximum-security state prison in Waverly, a couple miles off Route 460.
This operation was obviously quite “sophisticated,” to quote VADOC Director Joseph W. Walters, from a release that let the outside world in on the news.
“I thank our institutional staff at Sussex I State Prison for their vigilance and focus on ensuring the safety and security of our facility,” Walters said in a statement. “Our dedicated correctional staff and OLES members stand ready to intercept any dangerous contraband that individuals may attempt to introduce into correctional settings to ensure the safety and security of our dedicated corrections team members, of incarcerated individuals in our custody, of probationers, and of people in communities all across the Commonwealth of Virginia.”
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